Series: Grayslake
Genre: Paranormal, Shifter Romance
Publisher: Summerhouse Publishing
The Grayslake series follows a family of werebears in Georgia. In the first book No Ifs, Ands or Bears, Clan leader, Itan Ty, answers a call as sheriff of the Clan's hometown, where a werebear is attacking a Mia a new resident to the town.
Mia knows all about werebears. Her father is a werebear and her mother was human. Mia can't shift. When she returns to her new home she finds a baby bear in her pantry. When a werebear comes pounding on the door for the bear, Mia decides that she just can't put the baby into the werebear's custody until she knows exactly what is going on. The same goes for the sexy sheriff.
Ty knows that there is something special about Mia, but bears don't mate for life so why is his bear saying that he should take Mia forever.
This first book is a good introduction to the Grayslake series offering a good backstory and conflict for the couple.
In book 2 All Roar and No Bite, Grayslake werebear enforcer Van has hated humans since he was a young child, but he doesn't realize how far that hate has gone until he meets his own human mate Lauren.
When Lauren steps in the middle of a fight between her best friend and her friend's husband (the mayor) Van is called out as a deputy with the local police department. When he arrests Lauren, he realizes there is just something about her that keeps him coming back. When he realizes that Lauren is in danger, his bear pushes him to protect.
Lauren has no idea that there are werebears, and when she accidentally finds out the werebears law says she either needs to be mated to a bear or killed so that she can't share their secret.
This second story brings on its own challenges for the Grayslake werebear clan and specifically Van and Lauren. This story gives readers the chance to learn more about the other members of the clan family. While this book can be read alone, it is good to read the first book in the series to learn about the clan and other members of past and future story lines.
In Book 3 Roaring Up the Wrong Tree, werebear clan member Keen has always been the odd one out. As clan leader Ty's youngest brother he had no real role in clans leadership, Keen has been the one that no one took seriously, but he is more alpha than any of his brothers and stronger even if he hasn't proved it. He isn't interested in leading a clan.
Ty has order that all werehyenas leave the area at once. Trista is working to just survive. She has never been part of the hyena clan, but has lived on the fringes of the clan. She knows about the purge, but insists she is just visiting according to law.
No one in the werebear clan knows the rules better than Keen, so when he agrees that she is doing everything by the rules of the werelaw, Ty allows her to stay. She must continue to follow those rules and when she is delayed the werewolf alpha decides it is time to step in and enforce the purge by killing her.
Keen will do whatever it takes to protect Trista, who he declares as his mate.
This book is by far the best in the series. I think that these two make the best couple in all the books. They compliment each other in so many ways, from backgrounds to current problems.
In book 4 Love at First Roar, werebear Issac is ready to leave town because he knows that with his current clan he is never going to find a mate. Since the fight with the hyenas (from book 1) Issac was left scarred on the face and most of the female werebears can't even stand looking at his face. As the town's healer that is a problem for him.
His new neighbor, weremole Kira doesn't seem bothered by his scars at all. Of course Kira is mostly blind and has scars of her own. Issac's bear takes immediately to Kira of course both Issac and his bear can do without her dog, but that's something they can handle if they have her.
When a werebear female comes after Kira with the same poison that the hyenas to scar his face, there are lots of questions that need answers.
This is one of the books that it is best to read the first book in the series before this one. Although there isn't much about Issac in the first book you do begin to understand his character more.
Kira is the best of the mates in this series. I love her strength and sense of humor.
No Ifs, Ands or Bears About It
ISBN: 9781311709158
Description:
The first day of Mia’s new life in Grayslake, Georgia is not going as planned. The house her grandfather left her looks ready to crumble, boxes cover every inch of the floor and—oh—there’s a bear cub in her pantry. It gets worse when the cub’s uncle comes by and busts out his fur and claws while on her front porch. Then it gets loads better because suddenly there’s a hot hunk of badge-wearing werebear on her lawn ready to rescue her. Yum. Of course, he has to ruin things by trying to take the cub out of her hands. Ha!
The cub is hers… No ifs, ands, or bears about it.
Werebear Ty can’t seem to get the curvaceous, delectable Mia to understand that, even if she is one-quarter werebear, she isn’t keeping the cub. Ty is the Grayslake Itan, the clan’s leader, and the little werebear is going home with him… Unless it isn’t. It’s her smile. If she’d stop smiling and being gorgeous, his inner-bear would support him and Ty would get his way. But the beast wants to make their woman happy, so it’s perfectly content to let her do as she pleases. Then things change. Threats arise, danger comes close, and Ty demands she return to his den. No ifs, ands, or mates about that.
All Roar and No Bite
ISBN: 9781311031419
Description:
Who needs claws when you’ve got a baseball bat? Lauren Evans sure as heck doesn’t.
Human Lauren has a protective streak a mile wide and one immediate goal in life—get her best friend out of an abusive household. If that involves a little bat-based redecorating, so be it.
Unfortunately—or fortunately—a certain sexy-as-hell cop breaks up the fight before she has a chance to really get going. Grayslake police officer Van Abrams is too hot for his own good, and his handcuffs make all those wonderful places tingle. Too bad he, you know, arrested her and stuff. But then he becomes overbearing, demanding, and commanding. Suddenly Lauren finds herself in his arms, in his bed, and mated to his werebear butt. What’s up with that?
Werebear Enforcer Van Abrams doesn’t want anything to do with humans. He’s got reasons, and they’re damn good ones. He doesn’t need to explain himself to anyone, especially the curvaceous, luscious, gorgeous, human Lauren. Then, his bear decides Lauren is his mate and Van’s anti-human feelings abandon him. He still hasn’t figured out if that’s a good thing. Of course, when danger rolls in from Boyne Falls and joins with a powerful prick from Grayslake, Van realizes that, human or not, Lauren is his.
Van hopes he can kill their enemies and still make it home for dinner.
Warning: This book contains bad guys (more than one) being bad to good girls (two if you’re counting), and one group of humans who sorta end up… dead. Unfortunately, all that comes with a lot of blood, tears, and balls of fur. In this one, boy bears really do drool and human girls rule (and kick ass). We also learn that you can never have enough baseball bats, brake fluid, or fire pokers. Just sayin’.
Roaring Up the Wrong Tree
ISBN: 9781936950829
Description:
What should Trista do when faced with a hunky werebear who can’t decide if he wants to kill her or screw her?
Half-hyena, Trista has spent years rotating between Grayslake, Redby, and Boyne Falls. When the Grayslake Itan—the local clan’s werebear leader—orders a purge of all hyenas, she finds herself fighting to hold onto the hand-to-mouth life she’s created. Her carefully built existence is threatened further when a gorgeous werebear strides into her life and demands not just her heart, but her very soul. She’ll think about it, but not until her shift ends at seven.
Keen seems like a happy-go-lucky, sex-and-sin werebear, but that’s nowhere near the truth. In reality, his inner-animal wants to go on a bloody rampage and kill half of Grayslake—just because it can. After that, it wants to claim the seductive, curvaceous half-hyena female Keen can’t get out of his head. The animal doesn’t care that most bears wouldn’t mind a little hyena tartare for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nope, it peers at her through Keen’s human eyes and has one thought: mate.
When push comes to shove, Keen has to decide if he would rather have the family he was born with, or Trista—the woman who makes him realize that true happiness comes in a lush, hyena-shaped package.
Enjoy the third book in the bestselling Grayslake series. This new BBW paranormal shapeshifter romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Celia Kyle is sure to secure a spot on your keeper shelf.
Love at First Roar
ISBN: 1502964473
Description:
What happens when a half-blind weremole girl falls for a scarred werebear guy? A match made in furry, dirt-caked heaven. Mostly.
Weremole Kira Kolanowski has spent twenty-nine-ish years of her life half-blind and occasionally half-dead. (Her family isn’t exactly loving.) In an effort to remain fully alive, she moves to Grayslake, Georgia, with her poor excuse for a guide dog—a guide dog who decides to lift his leg and relieve himself on sexy-smelling werebear Isaac Abrams’ belongings. And when he roars…well, it makes her heart go pitter-patter and other parts go “ooh baby, ooh baby.” Just when she thinks she might have found happiness, a raving she-bitch werebear chick tries to kill her with the same poison that scarred Isaac to hell and back. The poison that Kira’s family happens to manufacture…
Isaac Abrams is leaving Grayslake. He’s tried, lord how he’s tried, to settle into life in Grayslake after the birth of his niece, but it’s not happening. He’s been home for a year, and it’s been 365 plus days of women looking past him and flat-out pretending he doesn’t exist. The battle with the hyenas didn’t just ruin his face, it ruined his chances at finding a mate in his hometown. So, he’s leaving. Or he was leaving until one day a lush, curvaceous weremole wanders into his half-packed house with that damned peeing dog of hers…it’s a good thing she’s so gorgeous.
Maybe he will stay—stay and keep Kira Kolanowski all to himself. Well, once he kills everyone who’s trying to kill her.
